Popular Songs You Didn't Realize Are Actually Racist According to Reader's Digest

"Putting words to music can lead to immortality. Unfortunately, not all sentiments expressed in songs deserve to live forever. Systemic racism has been known to work itself into music, via lyrics that promote unflattering racial stereotypes and uphold the ideals of White supremacy by "other"-ing Blacks, Asians, Latinos, Muslims, Native Americans, and various other historically marginalized groups. In evaluating a tune's capacity to offend, it's important to differentiate between neutral cultural reference and cultural devaluation wrought by racism. There's plenty of the latter going around, and it might be playing on a radio near you right now. Here are some popular offenders you may not have realized were problematic." - rd.com

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